Zverism

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Zverism

n.
the wish that people could suspend their civility and indulge the physical side of each other first—sniffing each other’s hair like dogs, staring unabashedly at interesting faces, reveling in a beautiful voice like a song on the radio.

Lithuanian žvėris, wild beast + Latin vērissimus, the truest, the realest. Pronounced “zvair-iz-uhm.”

Looseleft

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Austice

a leaf imprint in the mud

Zysia

a kite soaring above an empty landscape

Treachery Of The Common

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Ghough

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The Kinder Surprise

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